Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 14, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026

CVE-2017-7859

Description

FFmpeg before 2017-03-05 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the ff_h264_slice_context_init function in libavcodec/h264dec.c.

Affected products

FFmpeg/Ffmpeg
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <=3.2.4

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

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References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/97663nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detailnvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

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